27/11/85.
Let me hope, dear Mr Maiden, that you arrived well at your home, and that you found your family also well and happy - only, be careful now, not to overwork yourself, so that the good, which your tour during convalescence has done you, may not be lost again.1
We passed here at our meeting yesterday a short resolution congratulatory and rejoycive, and (in confidence speaking) appointed a subcommittee; to report to our meeting next week, whether my proposition, to hold a ball in the interest of this branch of the society is feasible.
The enclosed few lines for Mr Bäuerlen are mainly intended as a felicitation to himself.2
Very regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller
We here look forward with great interest to the forthcoming fêtes in honor of the expedition. I hope the name Strickland will be maintained for the new large branch of the River3
Maiden had been unwell for several months, probably from typhoid fever, but had recently visited Melbourne; see M to E. Strickland, 10 October 1885, especially n. 12, and M to E. Strickland, 21 November 1885.
Enclosed letter not found.
The name has been maintained for a major tributary of the Fly River recorded during the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia's New Guinea exploring expedition in 1885.
MS annotation: 'Ansd. 15/12'. Letter not found. For a summary of the above letter see: ML MSS.853/2 letter register, no. 895, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (NSW Branch), Mitchell Library: 'J. H. Maiden re health'.
Please cite as “FVM-85-11-27,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on